[tex-live] Identifying the cause of slow compilation

[Zdenek Wagner]

Hi Phil,

it seems to me that your TEXINPUT is not optimized,, it searches file by
disk lookup instead of default database lookup (if the components contain
!! as Markus wrote). The difference is thus the performance of the file
system. It is difficult to say why VM is faster, it would be important to
know whether it locates the files on its virtual disk or on the host disk.
Anyway, in plain TeX the difference should not be as pronounced as in LaTeX
where typically a lot of packages and other support files have to be
loaded. In plain TeX you read usually just the format, tfm files and your
document. You can try to use kpsewhich to locate a file and measure
required time.

Zdeněk Wagner
http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/
http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz

2015-03-11 12:18 GMT+01:00 Markus Kohm <komascript at gmx.info>:

> > How should I go about identifying the cause of the bottleneck in the
> > slow system ?
>
> - Compare TEXMF and the components of TEXMF like TEXMFDIST. Missing "!!"
> could
> slow down file searching.
>
> - Ask kpsewhich for other texmf.cnf using `kpsewhich -a texmf.cnf'.
>
> Use the KPATHSEA_DEBUG and TEXMFLOG to get more information about file
> searching. See `texdoc kpathsea', section 8.3 and 8.4 for more information
> about this.
>
> Markus
>
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